JLP Diaspora

What this site is for

Diaspora chapters abroad

Join the JLP diaspora chapter where you live, in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, or ask to start one wherever you are in the world. Chapters meet, run events, raise funds for causes at home and share news.

Find your chapter

Your representation in Jamaica

See who represents each community at home: the Member of Parliament, the JLP caretaker and the councillors for all 63 constituencies, how to reach them, and when the next elections are due.

See the constituencies

Register with the Government too

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade's diaspora platform, ConnectMeJA, is also used for Global Jamaica Diaspora Council elections. It is separate from this site.

Open ConnectMeJA (opens the Government site)

Election countdown

General election

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Must be held by Wednesday, 18 December 2030

Parliament first sat on 18 September 2025. Unless dissolved sooner, it stands dissolved five years later, on 18 September 2030, and the election must follow within three months (Constitution of Jamaica, sections 64 and 65). The Prime Minister can advise the Governor-General to dissolve Parliament and call the election at any time before then, so it may come much sooner. The fifth anniversary of the last general election (3 September 2025) is 3 September 2030.

Local government elections

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Due by Saturday, 27 May 2028

Councillors were elected on 26 February 2024. The Local Governance Act sets the next elections at the fourth anniversary (26 February 2028), with a 90-day extension. The Prime Minister and the Minister of Local Government can call them earlier at any time, and Parliament can pass a law to postpone them, as it did between 2020 and 2024.

Overseas Jamaicans vote in person in Jamaica: there is no overseas, postal or absentee voting. Dates are the legal outer limits unless an election has been called; this is general information, not legal advice.